Saturday May 26th, 1906
April 26, 1906
Summary
The weekly news is condensed into thoughts about black people and the hard work necessary to live highly. The Planet claims that there should be no discontent because “no one should want more than they are able to make money and purchase.”
Transcription
Saturday May 26th, 1906
People who will not work should not eat.
No one should want more than they are able to make money and purchase.
Discontent will make home a hell, and cause the occupant to wish himself in heaven.
A man who cannot make enough to pull his own locomotive is in bad shape and has made a mistake in coming to earth.
Some people are claiming that the “Jim Crow” Negro is responsible for our “Jim Crow” trouble. He may furnish the excuse, but the Negro hater furnishes the blow.
Colored men, we must be polite and obliging and by all means let the white people of this country see and realize that we have the fundamental principles of a gentleman in our make-up.
We haven’t time to be whining without working and it will hardly do to be whining while we are working. God and our own efforts will ultimately solve many of the problems confronting us.
A man who cannot succeed living single should try it, living married and then he will know within six months’ time whether he is “going up or down the stream.”
Never be discouraged. There are problems in life that if you try to solve them too quickly will land you in the lunatic asylum or in the alms-house or in the bar-room. Go slow and think them over.
The Hepburn Rate Bill would have been much better if that “equally as good” provision for travellers had been left out of it. The United States Supreme Court has been making that kind of law, but now Congress is about to re-vitalize it. But then we sometimes think that these people who are opposing our progress cannot do much more to us anyway. We believe that God has secrets that, “thus far shalt thou go and not further.”
With the Negro-haters against the Negro and the Negro against himself, those of us who mean to do right, and advance rapidly, are having a hard time.
People who will not work should not eat.
No one should want more than they are able to make money and purchase.
Discontent will make home a hell, and cause the occupant to wish himself in heaven.
A man who cannot make enough to pull his own locomotive is in bad shape and has made a mistake in coming to earth.
Some people are claiming that the “Jim Crow” Negro is responsible for our “Jim Crow” trouble. He may furnish the excuse, but the Negro hater furnishes the blow.
Colored men, we must be polite and obliging and by all means let the white people of this country see and realize that we have the fundamental principles of a gentleman in our make-up.
We haven’t time to be whining without working and it will hardly do to be whining while we are working. God and our own efforts will ultimately solve many of the problems confronting us.
A man who cannot succeed living single should try it, living married and then he will know within six months’ time whether he is “going up or down the stream.”
Never be discouraged. There are problems in life that if you try to solve them too quickly will land you in the lunatic asylum or in the alms-house or in the bar-room. Go slow and think them over.
The Hepburn Rate Bill would have been much better if that “equally as good” provision for travellers had been left out of it. The United States Supreme Court has been making that kind of law, but now Congress is about to re-vitalize it. But then we sometimes think that these people who are opposing our progress cannot do much more to us anyway. We believe that God has secrets that, “thus far shalt thou go and not further.”
With the Negro-haters against the Negro and the Negro against himself, those of us who mean to do right, and advance rapidly, are having a hard time.
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Emma Roberts
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“Saturday May 26th, 1906,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed April 24, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/428.